Join us at the Centre for Expanded Poetics for a launch of David Swartz’s translation of Orpheu Literary Quarterly and a screening of his film based on Fernando Pessoa’s The Seafarer, featuring Mariana Meneses, Dullier Correia, and Maria Cabral.

“Properly speaking, ORPHEU is an exile of artistic temperaments seeking art as secrecy or torment…Our intent is to materialize, as a group or idea, a determined number of revelations in thought or art, that, based on this aristocratic principle, find in ORPHEU, their esoteric ideal, ingrained in the way we feel and know ourselves.”
— Luis de Montalvôr (from the “Introduction” to Orpheu Literary Quarterly Volume 1 )

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Born and raised in Toronto, David Swartz moved to Lisbon Portugal in 2014, where he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon (“The Hands´ Self-Reflection”, MFA, 2016) and Literary Studies at NOVA University Lisbon (“Shake-speares Tenth Muse: The Will To Nothing”, PhD, 2022). His publications include two translations from Portuguese: The Religious Mantle by Nuno Júdice (New Meridian Arts, 2019) and Orpheu Literary Quarterly Volumes 1 & 2 (New Meridian Arts, 2022).